Broom-sprinkler



(No Model.)

T. ANDREWS.

BROOM SPRINKLER.

No. 325,375. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

Inz e for UNTTED STATES PATENT @TETQE.

TYLER AXDREXVS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BROOM-SPRINKLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,375, dated September 1, 1885.

' Application filed October 21, 1884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TYLER ANDREWS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk of the Cominonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Broom- Sprinklers and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a side e1e vation, Fig. 3 an end view, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of a sprinkler of my i111 proved kind. Fig. 5 is an edge view of a broom with my sprinkler applied to it. Fi 6 is a view of the tube E and its educts to be (iBSCl'IbLd.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the said drawings, A denotes a cylindrical vessel or reservoir having a tube, B, extending through it from head to head and opening through each of them. It also has a tube or conduit, 0, projecting from one head and opening out of it, and provided with a stop-cock, 1), such tube at its outer end terminating in and opening into the middle of another or jet tube, E, arranged as shown, and stopped at its ends, and having a series of holes, a, in it between its ends, and at its under side, such being as shown in Fig. 6. There is also to the vessel A a mouth, b, through which such vessel is to be supplied with water.

in applying the sprinkler to a broom the handle 0 of the latter is to be passed through the tube B until the vessel A may bear on the upper part of the brush portion d, the conduit O with its spray-tube E extending down upon one side of such brush portion. By means of the stop-cock the discharge of water from the reservoir into the said brush portion may be regulated, in order that theb room may be usezi for sweeping and at the same time wetting a surface.

I am aware of the scrubbingmachine, shown in the Unit-ed States Patent No. 4,280, in which a rotary brush arranged within a frame has not only mechanism for revolving it, but a reservoir and its eduot, and a stopcock for supplying it with water, such water being discharged into the upper part of the case about the brush, and the shaft of the brush being extended up through the reservoir. Though analogous in some respects to my, invention this serubbingmachinehas notcertain elements of my inveutionviz., the eductiontube and its jet-tube extending down from the reservoir alongside of the brush portion of the broom. In fact the said scrubbing-machine could notbe used with a broom, as is the case with my sprinkler.

I am also aware of the floor or window washer described and shown in the United States Patent No. 302,862, which consists of a brush having a handle extending from it at an obtuse angle to it, and provided with a bag for containing water, two jaws connected together and inelosing the bag between them, one or more springs to close the jaws upon the bag, and discharge mechanism for conveying the water from the bag to the surface to be washed, all of which differ materially from my invention, as the bag has no construction by which it can he slipped on a broom-handle concentrically thereto, nor has it any eduet and stop-cock and jet-tube arranged and for use against the side of the brush part of the broom, as in my invent-ion.

I claim-- 1. The combination of a reservoir having a tube extending through it and opening through its heads and ends, with a broom hav ing its handle going through such tube and reservoir, and with an ed uction oonduitprovided with a stopcock and leading out of the bottom of such reservoir and down alongside of the brush portion of saidbroom, and pro vided with ajet-tube opening out of and pro jecting in opposite directions from such conduit and transversely of the said brush portion, all being substantially as set forth.

.2. The sprinkler substantially as described for application to and use with a broom in manner as explained, it consisting of the reservoir A, the tube B, extending through it and opening through both of its heads, the eduction-conduit O, the stop-cock D thereof, and the jettube E, arranged essentially as set forth.

TYLER ANDREWS.

W'itnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. 'B. PRATT. 

